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Multi-Robot Systems and Cooperative Object Transport: Communications, Platforms, and Challenges

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IEEE OPEN JOURNAL OF THE COMPUTER SOCIETY
Volume 4, Issue -, Pages 23-36

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/OJCS.2023.3238324

Keywords

Robots; Robot kinematics; Multi-robot systems; Decision making; Task analysis; Computer architecture; Scalability; Communication technology; cooperative object transport; multi-robot system; platform; survey

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Multi-robot systems are gaining attention due to their lower cost, better robustness, and higher scalability compared to single-robot systems. Cooperative object transport is a well-known use case of multi-robot systems and has great potential in real-world applications. However, recent studies focus more on coordination and task allocation problems, with less emphasis on communication among multiple robots.
Multi-robot systems gain considerable attention due to lower cost, better robustness, and higher scalability as compared with single-robot systems. Cooperative object transport, as a well-known use case of multi-robot systems, shows great potential in real-world applications. The design and implementation of a multi-robot system involve many technologies, specifically, communication, coordination, task allocation methods, experimental platforms, and simulators. However, most of recent multi-robot system studies focus on coordination and task allocation problems, with little focus on communications among multiple robots. In this review, we focus on the communication, validation platform, and simulator of multi-robot systems, and discuss one of the important applications, cooperative object transport. First, we study the multi-robot system fundamentals and comprehensively review the multi-robot system communication technologies. Then, the multi-robot system validating platform, testbed, simulator, and middleware used in academia and industry are investigated. Finally, we discuss recent advances in cooperative object transport, and challenges and possible future research directions for multi-robot systems.

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